How Alan Watts Re-imagined Religion Desire and Life Itself
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How Alan Watts re-imagined religion, desire and life itself | Aeon Essays
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Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined religion in a secular age
"Informing them ... that the ideals into which their parents and teachers had indoctrinated them were, by comparison, empty. Life did not have to be ‘about’ something or ‘going’ somewhere, any more than the point of playing or listening to a Bach prelude was to get to the end as quickly and efficiently as possible."